Magnificient Turkey

• Welcome to Turkey, today is your arrival day. Meet at Kayseri airport and transfer to your hotel.
• After the check in we will transfer to Horse riding area. Overnight in Cappadocia.

Meal Plan: Dinner

• You will be picked up approximately 09:30 We will drive you to Ozkonak Underground City, one of the best preserved Underground cities in Cappadocia.
• Then visit to Uchisar Castle, the highest point of Cappadocia.
• After Uchisar, you visit Goreme Open Air Museum, the Heart of Cappadocia. Goreme Open
  Air Museum is famous for frescoes dating to 10th century describing the life of Jesus Christ and monks.
• Next stop is Cavusin, which is an abandoned village with old cave Greek houses.
• After Cavusin you go to the restaurant in Avanos to have lunch. After lunch, you visit a pottery work shop, to see how to make potteries.
• Then you go Pasabagi where you can see three – headed fairy chimneys.
• After Pasabagi you visit another workshop to see Cappadocian handwoven carpets and kilims.
• Next stop is Devrent Valley, which is also called Imagination Valley, where you can see natural rock formations looking like animals.
• Then you head to a wine shop in Urgup for wine tasting.
• Last stop is Three Beauties, three beautiful fairy chimneys with their hats, which is the symbol of Cappadocia.
• This tour will end approximately 18:00 and you will be returned back to your hotel. Overnight in Cappadocia.

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

[Optional]Hot Air Baloon: 100 Euros Per person

The Hot Air Balloon Tour offers a minimum 1 – hour flight time in the air. You will be collected from your hotel early in the morning, usually before sunrise and driven to the take-off site. While you are having a light breakfast, you will watch the inflation of the balloon then get a passenger briefing which explains basic rules & safety measures for the balloon flight. Then it’s time to climb into the basket and highlight of your Turkey trip begins! After the flight lands, there is a small celebration with champagne and you will receive your flight certificate. You will be driven back to your hotel around 08:30am just in time for breakfast, going on a daily tour.

• After breakfast early in the morning at 08:00 drive to Konya. 2.5 hour later we have break for coffee and after some rest drive to Konya for lunch at 13:00pm and after the lunch visit the imposing green – tiled Mausoleum of Mevlana, the mystic founder of the Sufi sect (Whirling Dervishes).
• After the Konya Mevlanatour drive to Antalya.
• Arrival to Antalya around 19:30pm and check into your hotel.
• Overnight in Antalya.

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

• After breakfast at 08:30 am drive to Antalya old City ( Kaleici ) Marina, Clock Tower, Hadrian’s Gate, Broken Minaret, Hidirlik Tower: Kaleici is a small historic part of Antalyas modern city, also known as the Old City of Antalya. In history it was once the sprawling modern Roman town, then the Byzantine Empire, then Seljuks, and finally the Ottoman Turkish town. The Hadrian’s Gate (or Hadrianus Gate or The Three Gates) is a triumphal arch which was built in the name of the Roman emperor Hadrian.
• Antalya’s broken wonder is the Broken Minaret of the Korkut Mosque, which itself was built originally as a Roman temple in the 2nd century AD, and thus did not have a minaret at all.
• Hidirlik Tower is a landmark tower of tawny stone in Antalya, Turkey, where Kaleici meets Karaalioglu Park. It is believed to be built in Hellenistic era on a square plan and later turned into circular tower in 2nd century AD and was either used as a fortification or a lighthouse in the past. we have lunch than depart for Duden waterfalls.
• All the streams of the region aim at finding their way into the Mediterranean and they pour down the slopes of the Taurus, sometimes overland sometimes underground and reaching their destination, result in lovely waterfalls, of which there are more than twenty.
• After tour come back to hotel and rest of day is yours.
• Overnight in Antalya.

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

• After breakfast we depart for Antalya Airport for our domestic flight Istanbul.
• Upon arrival meet at airport and transfer to your hotel.
• Overnight in Istanbul.

Meal Plan: Breakfast

• After breakfast, we have Istanbul City Tour. Our first visit will be Hippodrome. Ancient Hippodrome was the scene of chariot races, with the three monuments; the Obelisk of Theodosius, the bronze Serpentine Column and the Column of Constantine.
• Then we will visit Suktanahmet Imperial Mosque. Across from Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque, it built in the 16th century by the architect Mehmet, is known as the Blue Mosque because of its magnificent interior decoration of blue Iznik tiles.
• Our next visit will be Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque. The Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque, previously known as the Church of Divine Wisdom, is simply the best of its kind! Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque is the greatest surviving example of Byzantine Architecture. For 1000 years, it was once the largest church in the world, decorated with stunning 6th century golden mosaics. Today it is a mosque.
• After that visit Topkapi Palace, the great palace of the Ottoman sultans from the 15th to the 19th centuries housing an exquisite collection of crystal, silver, and Chinese porcelain, robes worn by the sultans and their families, the famous jewels of the Imperial Treasury, miniatures, the Holy Mantle; enshrining relics of the Prophet Mohammed.
• Lunch break at 13:00 pm. After the lunch, Murtis Tour will take you to the Grand Spice
  Bazaar, which is a unique atmosphere with reasonable prices for your shopping. Here you will find Exotic Spices and Herbs, Turkish Baklava, Turkish Delights, Turkish Coffee, nuts and fruits, small souvenirs such as Ceramic Handicrafts, Evil Eyes totems, all naturel olive oil, soaps and many other goods in Souvenir Shops and stores.
• After the tour, transfer back to your hotel.
• Overnight in Istanbul.

Meal Plan: Breakfast

Note: Please do not forget to carry Scarf with you because of visiting to Blue Mosque & Haghia
Sophia Mosque.

• Pick up at 08:30am from the hotel and depart for the Istanbul Bosphorus Cruise and Shopping Tour.
• Bosphorus by Boat a traditional excursion by boat along the waterway separating Europe and Asia. The shore is lined with old wooden villas, palaces of marble, fortresses, and small fishing villages. During the excursion you will see the magnificent sights of the following attractions from your boat.
• See Dolmabahce Palace, and further along, the parks and imperial pavilions of Yildiz Palace. On the coastal edge of this park, is Ciragan Palace, 300 meters of its marble facade faces the shore.
• At Ortakoy a great variety of artists gather every Sunday to display their work along the street. Ortakoy is a symbol of tolerance with a church, a mosque and a synagogue existing side by side for centuries.
• Rumeli Fortress Built by Mehmet the Conqueror in 1452 prior to the conquest of Istanbul was
  completed in only four months to control and protect the infamous Bosphorus passage. It is one of the most beautiful works of military architecture anywhere in the world.
• Beylerbeyi Palas (Palace) The summer residence of Ottoman sultans exists in its original renovated glory featuring original antique furniture and magnificent gardens with the Harem on the Asian side of Istanbul.
• Bosphorus Bridge enjoy a unique chance to step from one continent (Asia) to another (Europe)
  Camlica Hill the highest point in Istanbul. At the top of it you can rest and admire the magnificent
  panorama of Istanbul and the Bosphorus from the beautiful gardens, landscaped in traditional Turkish Ottoman style.
• Shopping Tour (after cruise) Grand Covered Bazaar – Experience the traditional
  silk weaving skills of Turkish women at the carpet weaving courses provided by The Ministry of National Education. You will get the opportunity to see jewellery, handcrafts centre and a modern leatherwear show. Enjoy the experience of shopping whilst gaining the knowledge of the ancient craftsmen, with Murti’s Tour’s local escort full of knowledge about how to haggle the streets of Istanbul.
• The rest of the evening is yours to explore Istanbul.
• Overnight in Istanbul.

Meal Plan: Breakfast

• After breakfast check out from your hotel, transfer to the airport.
• We hope your tour was a memorable one as we look forward to seeing you in the future.

Meal Plan: Breakfast